{{New Testament manuscript infobox | form = Minuscule | number = '''291''' | image = | isize = | caption= | name = | sign = | text = Gospels | script = Greek | date = 13th century | found = | now at = Bibliothèque nationale de France | cite = | size = {{×|18.5|13.4}} | type = Byzantine text-type | cat = V | hand = | note = marginalia }}
'''Minuscule 291''' (in the Gregory-Aland numbering), ε 377 (Soden),<ref name = Gregory1908>{{cite book|last=Gregory|first=Caspar René|author-link=Caspar René Gregory|title=Die griechischen Handschriften des Neuen Testament|url=https://archive.org/stream/diegriechischen00greggoog#page/n69/mode/2up|year=1908|publisher=J. C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung|location=Leipzig|page=58}}</ref> is a Greek minuscule manuscript of the New Testament, on parchment. Paleographically it has been assigned to the 13th century.<ref name = Aland>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland |author2=M. Welte |author3=B. Köster |author4=K. Junack | title = Kurzgefasste Liste der griechischen Handschriften des Neues Testaments | publisher = Walter de Gruyter | year = 1994 | location = Berlin, New York | page = 64 | isbn = 3-11-011986-2 }}</ref> The manuscript has complex contents. It has marginalia.
== Description ==
The codex contains a complete text of the four Gospels on 290 parchment leaves ({{×|18.5|13.4}}). The text is written in one column per page, in 20 lines per page.<ref name = Aland/> The headpieces and large initials are ornamented with silver.
The text is divided according to the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''chapters''), whose numbers are given at the margin, and their {{lang|grc|τιτλοι}} (''titles of chapters'') at the top of the pages. There is no division according to the Ammonian Sections, with references to the Eusebian Canons.<ref name = Gregory/>
It contains Prolegomena, tables of the {{lang|grc|κεφαλαια}} (''tables of contents'') are placed before each Gospel, incipits, {{lang|grc|αναγνωσεις}} (''lessons''), Synaxarion, and marginal notes.<ref name = Gregory>{{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = Hinrichs | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 176 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up }}</ref>
== Text ==
The Greek text of the codex is a representative of the Byzantine text-type. Hermann von Soden lists it as I<sup>s</sup> (along with codices 157, 235, 245, 713, 1012).<ref name = Wisse/> Aland placed it in Category V.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Aland | first = Kurt | author-link = Kurt Aland | last2 = Aland | first2 = Barbara | author-link2 = Barbara Aland | others = Erroll F. Rhodes (trans.) | title = The Text of the New Testament: An Introduction to the Critical Editions and to the Theory and Practice of Modern Textual Criticism | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1995 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt/page/n160 138] | url = https://archive.org/details/textnewtestament00kurt | url-access = limited | isbn = 978-0-8028-4098-1}}</ref>
According to the Claremont Profile Method it creates textual group 291.<ref name = Wisse>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 58] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/58 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 }}</ref>
== Group 291 ==
The group shows some relationship to the Π groups. The profiles of the group 219 are:
: Luke 1: 4, 6, (8), 14, (22), 34, (36). : Luke 10: 15, 18, 23, 25, 53, 57, (62), 63. : Luke 20: 13, 19, 26, 50, 60, 62, 66, 70.
Members of the group: 291, 139, 371, 449, 597, 1235, 1340, 2346, 2603, and 2728.<ref>{{Cite book | last = Wisse | first = Frederik | title = The profile method for the classification and evaluation of manuscript evidence, as Applied to the Continuous Greek Text of the Gospel of Luke | publisher = William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company | year = 1982 | location = Grand Rapids | page = [https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/108 108] | url = https://archive.org/details/profilemethodfor00wiss/page/108 | isbn = 0-8028-1918-4 }}</ref>
== History ==
The manuscript once belonged to Presbyter Nicholas.<ref name = Gregory/> It was added to the list of New Testament manuscripts by Scholz (1794-1852).<ref>{{Cite book | last = Scrivener | first = Frederick Henry Ambrose | author-link = Frederick Henry Ambrose Scrivener |author2=Edward Miller | title = A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament | publisher = George Bell & Sons | year = 1894 | location = London | page = 225 | volume = 1 | edition = 4 }}</ref> It was examined and described by Paulin Martin.<ref>Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 71.</ref> C. R. Gregory saw it in 1885.<ref name = Gregory/>
The manuscript is currently housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gr. 113) at Paris.<ref name = Aland/>
== See also ==
* List of New Testament minuscules * Biblical manuscript * Textual criticism
== References ==
{{Reflist}}
== Further reading ==
* {{Cite book | last = Gregory | first = Caspar René | author-link = Caspar René Gregory | title = Textkritik des Neuen Testaments | publisher = J.C. Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung | year = 1900 | location = Leipzig | volume = 1 | page = 176 | url = https://archive.org/stream/textkritikdesne00greggoog#page/n189/mode/2up }} * Jean-Pierre-Paul Martin, ''Description technique des manuscrits grecs relatifs au Nouveau Testament, conservés dans les bibliothèques de Paris'' (Paris 1883), p. 71.
== External links ==
* [http://www.skypoint.com/members/waltzmn/Manuscripts1-500.html#m291 Minuscule 291] at the ''Encyclopedia of Textual Criticism''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Minuscule 0291}} Category:Greek New Testament minuscules Category:13th-century biblical manuscripts Category:Bibliothèque nationale de France collections